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  The pharmaceutical lobby refers to the representatives of pharmaceutical drug and biomedicine companies who engage in lobbying in favour of pharmaceutical companies and their products. Big Pharma spends more on marketing to doctors than consumers. A lot more. And that kind of money can affect and research shows it does affect a doctor’s decisions on which medicines to prescribe. That is, after all, the reason why drug makers spend so much money marketing to doctors. The largest pharmaceutical companies and their two trade groups, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and Biotechnology Innovation Organization, lobbied on at least 1,600 pieces of legislation between 1998 and 2004. Read more:  COVID-19 vaccines profits in 2021 ------------------------------------------------------ Read more:  5 proven signs that you have vitamin D deficiency According to the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics, pharmaceutical companies spent $900 million on lobbying

  There’s still a lot to learn about the virus, and opinions on masks have varied. But for the record, the CDC currently recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain. Many studies have tested surgical masks and N95 masks and found that they reduce viral spread, but until now, there  hasn’t been much evidence  that cloth masks also work. Cloth masks aren’t great at protecting the wearer but even the lowest efficiency mask, “is still better than nothing,”  - On the other hand,  Americans are defying these orders despite evidence that suggests that widespread use of face masks can greatly  limit the transmission of the coronavirus , which is believed to occur mainly from respiratory droplets. So why are we at war over masks? Turns out, face coverings have been controversial in the U.S. for more than a century, When it comes to public health, experience has shown a light touch is most effective in persuading Ame